The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-19
THE REPUBLIC STILL YOUNG.
Cosby RecolIections, Showing How Near
We Are Yet to the Revolution.

Cosby RecolIections, Showing How Near
We Are Yet to the Revolution.
New York Special.
1--WE think of the time of Washington as ages"
said an elderly gentleman of an tiquarian tastes,
land yet can point many illustrations which
will suggest how very near the distant past is to
rs, after all. For instance, until within a few
months law partner of Aaron Burr was in
tive practice in this city. He had Office in the
building that was torn down to make room for
Temple court, and yet Burr came within q hairs
breadth of being the third President of the
United States. His tie vote with jefferson
threw the election into the House. Peter Coop
er. who died not long ago, remembered the day
of Washington's funeral Daniel Webster was
born while the Revolution was in progress, and
there are many men still in their prime in New
York who have seen and heard him, and if
not mistaken both Mr.. Field and Mr.. Evarts
have been engaged in law cases in which Web
ster was also counsel. recently met a hearty
man of business just over the line in Connect
cut who was chairman of the local committee
appointed to receive Lafayette when he made
his second visit to this country This mans
name is John Newman and he remembers very
we'll how Lafayette looked and what he said on
that occasion. Henry Clay and John G. Cal
houn were both lads before this government
organized, but there is still living man who sat
in the United States Senate with them. l refer
to ex-senator Simon Cameron
There are receiving pensions to-day as Wild
of soldiers of the Revolution women.
and there were living at the time of the Rebel
lion five men W no had fought during the Revol-
ution. l heard one of them. the Rev. Daniel
Waldo, preach IN 1851. Mr.. PO0re, tho wash
ington correspondent, has told me that he has
seen every President since Madison, and had
shaken hands and spoken to every since
Monroe An old friend of mine named Abijah
Ressiqua, of Ridgefeld. who died month ago,
had voted for every President since Madison,
and he remembered very we'll hearing the
church bells toll the day of Wasbington's
funeral. There is in active business now a man
who two years old when Washington
first inaueurated President. He is George L.
Perkins, of Norwich, and he man grown
when he sailed down the Hudson on the famous
trip that Robert Fulton once made from and to
Albany with his steamboat. The engineer of
the first locomotive that ever ran in the country
was living some months ago, and l think still is.
There is now living, and in good health,
famous man. who a member of President
Folks Cabinet forty-s years ago. mean Ban
croft, the historian. Mr. Bancroft has met with
very many who took part in the Revolu-
tionary War and conversed with them. Very
many New Workers. not yet old men, We're we'll
acquainted with the son of Alexander Hamilton,
who died not long ago. Yet Alexander Hamil
ton was Washingtons aid during the Revolution
and his first Secretary of the Treasury. You
will see then from these illustrations, and 1
might give others. that still a very young
republic. and that but few years have passed
since the time when al who now live might have
taken the hands of men who had seen Washing
ton and who had fought under him. Very many
men now living have, in fact been able to enjoy
this privilege"